The morale was boosted, and the Ottomans who were united made the Southeastern Army feel great pressure!

The southeastern army's attack on the city of Apoll was frustrated, and the opponent's city was strong, morale was strong, and the counterattack was powerful, repelling the Chinese!

It is a way of fighting with a life for a life, the power of the holy war is incomparable, the Ottomans defeated the material with spirit, and the southeast army was still able to withstand them, but the casualties gradually increased, and the leader could not bear it, so he ordered to stop the attack.

As a result, the large army of the Southeast Army was stationed outside the city of Apoll, and the rangers attacked the interior of the opponent, causing the opponent to panic, and a small number of elite troops attacked the enemy's small cities, looted places, and plundered the people.

As a result, several units retreated in disgrace.

The first unit, the 7th Company of the Rangers!

The company was miserable, the whole company was wiped out, and only two wounded soldiers were released.

When they wandered to the city of Azaz, northwest of the city of Apoll, they encountered enemy cavalry with superior forces and could not get rid of it!

It turned out that the Chinese also came to play cavalry, but they didn't play decently, people were two or three horses, and the Chinese cavalry was a single horse, and even people dismounted and walked when marching, no way, because of the lack of horses.

Moreover, it was met by the elite Ottoman Crimean cavalry, hundreds of cavalrymen scattered in formation, waving sabers in their hands, roaring, they frantically shouted religious slogans, it was like a tornado!

"Charge—" At least one battalion of Crimean cavalry charged, and the centurions bravely rushed to the front.

The Southeastern Army dismounted and formed a musket formation,

"Put!"

The officers shouted, muskets blazing, but the opposing formation spread out, and in the end it was able to achieve significant results.

Some of the Crimean cavalry crashed to the ground, their horses struggling and screaming on the ground, but many more crossed their fallen horses.

They spread out and slaughtered in all directions!

In the second round of gunfire from the Southeast Army, the bullets went out, and it seemed that the opponent's position had not changed much, as if they had not lost much of their fur.

The best way to carry muskets is a dense phalanx, and when there are fewer people versus more people, the disadvantages are fully revealed.

The enemy was approaching, and the muskets and bombs of the Southeastern Army could not stop their attack. Ottoman Crimean elite cavalry

Seeing this, the officer ordered to remount his horse, and at this time the rear cavalry took the lead, and the Crimean cavalry was about to rush to the dismounted infantry. The cavalry on both sides violently collided together, and the people on the battlefield immediately resounded with a scream when they turned over on their backs.

The dismounted infantry quickly put away their muskets, hurried back to the place where the horses rested, turned over and rode their horses.

"Brothers, come with me...... " The officer shouted as he brandished his saber, and one by one the soldiers rushed into battle fearlessly waving their sabers.

The white blades are intertwined, and the blood of people is splashed. In the fierce fighting, gunshots rang out from time to time......

The battle flag fell, and under the siege of superior forces, the 7th Company was defeated, but they behaved very heroically, no one surrendered, and only two wounded soldiers were captured.

The Ottoman Crimean cavalry was very polite, they did not mistreat the prisoners, allowed them to heal themselves, and then sent ten men and sent them back!

When asked, it turned out that they had participated in the Battle of Cairo!

In that battle, the Ottoman army was defeated, but the captain of this detachment was smart, he ran fast on four legs, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he slipped away, did not stay under the city of Cairo, and fled.

They were very clear and impressed by the strength of the Southeast Army, so the prestige of the Southeast Army made the two wounded soldiers released by them, so that the senior officers of the Southeast Army knew about the situation of the seventh company.

So, the strategy was immediately adjusted, and except for a few scouts who were out of the day and night, the small force no longer entered the north of the city of Apoll.

Because you can't escape, then don't send meat to your door.

As for the Crimean cavalry, they certainly did not escape the fate of defeat later, but because of the wounded soldiers returned to our army earlier, the Southeastern Army did not kill them all, which is a later story.

The 113th Infantry Regiment attacked a small county town 100 miles east of the city of Apoll, where the city defense was not decent, only three or four meters high and less than two meters wide, and it was bombarded by the infantry with bombs and could not hold it at all.

But when the 113th Regiment opened the gates and entered the city, something terrible happened!

The Ottomans, mostly civilians, and not many professional soldiers, dressed in cloth and armed with scimitars, attacked like devils.

If you can't shoot down, you can't die with a gun, as long as you still have a breath, you will pounce on you with red eyes to fight the Southeastern Army, and you will drag those infidels with you to the death, they will go to heaven, and the infidels will go to hell!

On the spacious street, the Southeastern Army was strong and could cope with it, but in a narrow place, the Southeastern Army lineup was overwhelmed!

The corpses were dismembered by random knives, and the southeastern army was brutally cut by them, and some of the soldiers were even unrecognizable.

The Southeastern Army killed thousands of opponents, but 200 of them were killed and hundreds were wounded.

Hearing that the Ottomans celebrated their victory on the city wall, the angry southeastern army made a comeback, opened the way with bombs, and set up a ladder to go up to the city.

Their madness forced the Southeastern Army to retreat!

The question is, everywhere the Southeastern Army attacked, met with resistance from the fanatical Ottomans, who held their chests open to meet the muskets and needed shields? No, the front row is the meat shield in the back row, which is still active, so that the officers and soldiers of the southeast can fully appreciate the miraculous ability of "you have a musket, he has a god".

However, it was said that the southeastern army besieged the city of Apoll, with 170,000 horses and horses, and the daily cost of grain was huge, and it could not be captured and plundered all over the four borders, and it was too late to receive help.

Mr. David David, commander of the Southeast Army, reported to the leader Yan Changwu: "The soldiers are tired, the food is exhausted, and the ammunition is scarce, our army must capture the city of Apoll at all costs, or retreat, otherwise the situation of the enemy and us will change, which will be unfavorable to our army!" ”

"Even if the city of Apoll is captured, the enemy cities in front of us are all difficult, can we fight one city after another, so how many of us can return to our hometowns?" Yan Changwu sighed that the Ottomans were "hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff." ”

"They are still full of people, and now is not the right time to destroy the Ottomans." He said categorically: "Retreat!" ”

So the southeastern army retreated one after another, and this retreat was not so easy to retreat, the Ottoman cavalry sent out to chase and kill, but Mr. David commanded effectively, and the troops alternately covered the retreat, and Ihasan Pasha saw that the enemy was prepared, and did not dare to advance, so the southeast army returned to Damascus with all its strength.

Yan Changwu led Li Dingguo and Ainengqi's Second Army to defend Damascus City, and led his army to retreat to Egypt, leaving Zhang Shouyun and Zhang Jiayu's First Army, Zu Kefa and Chen Qiao's Fifth Army to guard the Cairo area, Li Chengdong and Zhang Huangyan's Sixth Army to defend Suez City, and he was ready to return to the southeast by boat.

At this point, the first attack on the Ottoman Empire by the southeast came to an end, and the two sides entered a stage of strategic stalemate.